Reading good books and bad ones

Books! I'm a huge fan of books though only of stuff that I like reading.

I will never read a book just because it might impress someone or because its "the fashionable" thing to do. The book will have to appeal to me and be well written and on the subject that I like for me to read it. I overheard coworkers talking about how many months they've been trying to read War and Peace by Tolstoy. Or how they've been meaning to finish reading this dreadfully boring book and that its taking a while. One day I had enough of thier whining so I asked them the obvious question why not pick another book? Thier answer was oh I can't do that I need to finish this. Clearly someone has lost thier marbles ...wouldn't it be nicer to spend the same amount of time enjoying a good book rather than slogging through yet another dry book.

When a book "sucks" its usually a combination of author + reader and so what if a certain author is gifted he or she doesn't fit your reading style so that book is a bad fit. Reading is like dating there's no one reason why that book doesn't work out but that's just the way it is you put it down and move on to the next one.

Books! Hardcopy or Digital

I vote Hardcopy! there's a certain joy in the feel of a book the weight in one's hands, turning of pages, and did i mention no batteries, electricity needed and is world wide adaptable w/o converter plugs.

I dont own any leisurely reading materials unless I'm traveling and a novel is the most reliable entertainment as it requires no batteries or reception. I prefer reading stuff as hard copy and flipping pages. Online or text reading is too hard because by the time I've scrolled down to the right section its time to scroll again. I find that it causes eye strain when my eyes are auto tracking the text as i'm scrolling so I'd have to purposely look away but then how am i to know where I'm scrolling unless i'm looking.

The only reason I use pdf books is because its' free and very portable. Can you imagine how much it would cost to buy all the books that I read? not to mention where would I put all my books. So I only have reference books on my shelves

Art
Manga
Photoshop
Maya
Game Design
Java Programming
*Leisure reading - light reading/novels

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2009 Goals

getting back on track ... I'm working on

Efficiency
2 hours of chemistry
1 hour of math
5 hours maya
3 hours photoshop
comic strip (tablet wacom)
1-2 hour gaming
5 hours making $ USD
1 hour socializing
dating


or some combo that is measurable

woot nothing accomplished exactly 1 month later .. totally not a good sign. Progress must be measurable otherwise it's garbage.

otherwise I spent this time to prestudy my courses for next semester and wasn't able to do much more. I'm working on time management as the things i want to do and need to do will work if I can get this time athingy right. you know it's as they say everyone has 24 hours in a day and its' what you do with it.

Anyways! that's it for today. oh and it is inauguration day and obama made it through alive. yay!

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hehe still working on it .. so no results just yet .
Subject: A NYC Subway car I'm actually trying to figure out how I'm suppose to color the thing in and if I'm merging all the polygons then how is it suppose to color differently

Slacked off ....

I have been slacking off no new post, works, or any sort of art related stuff. I have posted a few new blogs though honestly I have no idea what else to do with my 8 domain names other than linking them to my blogs its a cool name.

Starting today I will make it a productive week but right now I am actually sleepy. Lawl.

Projects i'm working on:
portfolio, manga, anime, drawing, more schooling, homeless outreach, redcross disaster volunteer. I h

Holiday Party Update #2

Update #2 re: Holiday Party 12/20

This is a go! I will be attending this holiday party as a caricature artist. The director of Volunteer services called me back today and we talked about what I could do.

Her first question was, "Do you have talent"? So much for first impressions.

BTW This is what happens when 2 "me" centric people get on the phone:

Director of VS: "I want my 1000 kids to be entertained for free and you better be good"
ME: I want to practice my caricature drawing skills, people skills, network and as side benefit provide entertainment
Director of VS: goes how about ORIGAMI!
ME: caricature or facepainting only.
Director of VS: Ok caricature it is then. What's caricature?

Analysis: .. best to not think too much on it.
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Wee new toys!! erm Tools

Okies my shopping has arrived! I ranked my items by Need & Want. I would liked to have gotten top of the line stuff for everything but I had to compromise a bit due to a chronic shortage of cash. The Wacom tablet was the only thing that I spared no expense for and picked it based on reading 1reviews, artist recommendations and my needs. The rest .. I had to make do with older models or one with less features.

wacom intuos tablet 6x8 (need)
imoega external hard drive 1 TB (need)
sandisk flash drive 2 gig (need)
Dlink Wireless Router (need)
Dlink wireless adapter (need)
Clarity P300 phone (need)
canon A590 digital camera (want)
media card reader (want)

Comment: woot time to figure out what else this fancy tablet does! Yes i

I've been lazy .. Mon-Fri I can't get my act together and get work done. Anyways Friday afternoon it was ZOMG its weekend and I didnt' get anythign done. Then went on a 8 hour work session with Maya. I spent more time getting stuck and redoing than learning but i guess it was a learning experience.

hollow mask I still have only the base drawing and not exactly sure how to shape it in polygons as i needed more vertexs at first ..but now i've too many because it's tedious to move so many dots 1 by 1. Anyways 15 draft files used and still nothing useable. So back to the books for me .. that sounds like I need more learnings.

Today: polygon attempt on ichigo hollow. tommorow will hit the books and try it again with subdivisions and nurbs .. cuz polygon is NOT friendly to poking pushing stuffs.

-kk i'm off .. need to do Math h.w